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Plane crashes in the United States over a four week period is not normal. It is, however, the canary in the coal mine. It shows you the symptoms of a major disease that Donald Trump does not understand, nor does he appreciate the value of federal workers in the FAA and the National Safety Transit Board and other regulators that make our air travel safe. And now we are dying as an American people as a result. I'm Michael Popak, you're on the Midas Touch Network and Legal af. I don't think it is a coincidence that we've had five major plane crashes, three in red states and two in blue states. For those that want to get political ever since Donald Trump became president. Not when you put somebody like Sean Duffy as the head of your transportation department. Not when you put election deniers and government works for the people deniers in to major offices. Not when you gut willy nilly, without concern for American safety or value or welfare. You gut federal workers from every major agency that's responsible for making us safer, making our health safe, our workplace safe, our air travel safe, our food and drugs safe. There's a repercussion for that and we are watching it. You can call it a signal from beyond, but it is not normal to have five major airplane crashes in which 85 people died in four weeks in America. In fact, the plane crash that happened in the District of Columbia of all places, out in front of the White House in which an American Airlines commuter jet was crashed by a Army helicopter, you know, in that airspace. That was the first set of deaths in a major air crash in 15 years. We don't think that's a signal. Donald Trump talks about the fact that God picked him to be president. Well, something or someone had a major plane crash happen in D.C. right on his backyard. And this one is important to me, and this one I take personal. As many people know, I formed the POPOC firm recently, and one of our first clients is a family of somebody who died in the American Airlines Potomac crash. So I take it seriously, and I want to put this into perspective. Sometimes we lose historical perspective. We're so into the moment, we're so into rapid response. We're so into, you know, the velocity of news stories and the news cycle that we lose sight of history. Is this normal? No. We've had a total since January of, in terms of total plane crashes, we've had 87 accidents involving aircraft in the United States since January 1st. That's not a normal number. Right. We had 62 in January 25th. In February, we've had not one, not two, but five major airplane disasters since Donald Trump's been president, since he's gutted the FAA. He just fired on Friday, just three weeks after the D.C. crash that took the life of one of my clients. They. He just fired on Friday. Hundreds of people in the. In the Federal Aviation Administration, the faa, hundreds, got the ax in a midnight firing on Friday. Is this the time to do it? In fact, Senator Maria Cantwell, who sits on the Commerce Department overseeing the faa, said in question, is this the time to get rid of engineers and others responsible for checking the safety of 74,000, thousand pieces of equipment that make our air travel work? Is now the time for that? To Donald Trump and Elon Musk, it is, because they don't care about the human condition. They don't care about your safety or my safety or mortality. They care about money. Elon Musk wants to point to I found fraud. I found fraud in the faa, So I got rid of all those people, and I killed people as a result. Take responsibility. Blood is on the hands of the Trump administration. Trump administration has blood on their hands for killing people. And just to remind people, because it happened so quickly, you may not remember where these things happened. We had the D.C. crash that took the lives of 67 people. We had a Philadelphia crash, an Alaska crash, an Arizona crash, and we just had a Delta plane flip upside down. Okay, just to go through the timeline here, January 29, nine days after this administration took over. So it's on their watch. They own it. American Airlines Flight 64 people died after a Black Hawk helicopter crashed into it. All right, Two days later in Philadelphia, a medical jet carrying a child patient crashed, killing everyone on board, including the child patient. Seven people died in that crash on January 31st. Six days later, right on schedule, February 6th in Alaska, a small plane lost 10 people died. February 10th, two more private jets collided in Arizona. And on February 17th, the Delta Air Lines flight flipped over, sending 18 people to the hospital. And what does Donald Trump say about it? Is he comforting us? Is he taking to the podium? Is he putting his arms around us.